Grotticina della Madama

The Grotticina della Madama (or in French Cave of Madam ) or delle Capre (of the goats) is located in the Jardin of Boboli, close to the Palais Pitti with Florence, in Toscane, area of the Italy.

It was started, initiated by Giorgio Vasari like the Grande Cave, by Niccolò Tribolo before 1550, then continued by Bartolomeo Ammanati in 1570, and completed between 1583 and 1593 by the architect of the court of Tuscany, Bernardo Buontalenti to honor Jeanne with Austria, woman of François I {{er}} of Médicis.

She is registered, with most known Grotte of Buontalenti of the same garden, in the taste Grotesque of the architecture of the Jardin to Italian the, at the end of the garden of Madam.

Outside it presents a framed entry of a timpano (tympanum) traditional with two Pilastre S, and an interior whose surface is covered with a pretense of tormented and spongy rocks and Stalactite S. to accentuate the effect of it, the marble entry is off-set axis of the interior which comprises a marble basin surmounted by four statues of goats which projected water initially. The goat was a expensive symbol in the middle of Giovanna, Cosme I {{er}} of Médicis often made it represent by the artists of court like royal and virile symbol of the dux (in the court of Palais Pitti, in the base of the equestrian statue of Cosme Ier of the Piazza della Signoria).

The pavement of the cave was entrusted to Santi Buglioni.

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